The opaque nature of these solar ... light to allow the seedlings to grow. Even though the seedlings were exposed to lower light conditions than natural light, the team found that they grew more ...

Indium is used in tech devices like phone screens, solar panels ... hope that by concentrating red light across the growing season, we will be able to keep plants growing for longer,” Cameron ...

As the electrons flow through the cell, they generate electricity. On a much larger scale, solar-thermal power plants employ various techniques to concentrate the sun's energy as a heat source.

In the paper, the academics proposed to use semi-transparent organic solar cells that primarily absorb wavelengths of light that plants ... successfully growing certain crops under semitransparent ...